Group 1

Selecting a Speech Pattern

- The sixth principle of Speech Delivery
- These process is the main structure that will organize the ideas of your topic

Different outlines of Speech Organization:

1. Biographical
– The ideal outline for Speeches involving your life or other people’s
– Tends to be informative or entertaining
– Usually not persuasive
EXAMPLE

Specific To inform my audience about the early life of Marilyn

Purpose Manson

I. Describe the creator, Brian Hugh Warner’s early life and

the beginning of his feud with Christianity
Main
Points II. Describe Warner’s stint as a music journalist in florida

III. Describe Warner’s Decision to create Marilyn Manson

and the spooky kids

2. Categorical/Topical
– The most common pattern for organizing a speech
– The goal of this speech pattern is to create categories (or chunks) of
information that go together to help support your original specific purpose.
EXAMPLE

Specific To persuade a group of High School juniors to apply in a

Purpose senior school with dorms

I. Life away from home

Main
Points II. Life in dorms

III. Life on a bigger and nearer campus

3. Causal
– This speech pattern is used to explain cause-and-effect relationships
– This typically talks about the cause of the phenomenon in the first main point,
and how the causes lead to either a specific effect or a small set of effects
Example:
Specific purpose: To inform the audience about the problems associated with
Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol at a young age.
Main Points: 1. Explain the history and causes of these vices among
young teens.
2. Explain the underlying dieases and risks alcohol and
cigarettes from the experience of some survivors.
 However, a causal organizational pattern can also begin with an effect and
then explore one or more causes.

4. Chronological
– These type of speech pattern presents idea depending on the time the
topics have occurred—whether backward or forward
Example:
Specific purpose: To inform the audience how the Great Wall of China was
built.
Main Points: 1. Building the Great Wall began during Qin dynasty of
221-206 BC
2. New sections of the Wall were added during Han dynasty
of
206 BC-220 AD
3. The wall was completed during the Ming dynasty of the
year
1368 -1644

5. Comparison/Contrast
– This type of speech pattern takes two or more entities and draws attention
to their differences or similarities.
– Speakers oftenly explain a difficult subject by comparing it to an easier
more accesible one.
Example:
Specific purpose: To inform the audience, particularly netizens about the
Unschooling, a non-tranditional way of homeschooling.
Main Points: 1. Show how different unschooling can be compared to some
aspects of traditional homeschooling.
2. Show how unschooling and homeschooling differ.

6. Problem Solution
– This speech pattern divides information into two main sections: the
problem
and a solution
– Meant to persuade the audience to make a change in their opinion and/or
Behavior.